Shouldn't consciousness be thrilled with new thoughts and possibilities? Are our established ways of thinking so wonderful that we should disparage other approaches?

Not much is more valuable to us personally than to be informed of stronger possibilities than some weaker modes of thinking and less robust ideas that we cling to? Criticism has a negative connotation, but the alternative of living in a fog of inaccuracy seems like a strange goal.

Much of my interpretation of reality is not pleasant, which I would love to be wrong about. Absent of correction, we must respect whatever clarity we can glean from what reality makes available to us. What we wish for must stay within us and not pollute our analysis of what reality disseminates to us.

Ad hominem attacks and critical smears by the unaware often is an attempt to defend a facade that tries to cover the hate and fear commandeering a dysfunctioning intellectual process. But you must know this better than anyone.

Still, I apologize for those who have dehumanized themselves by abandoning their humanity for the hate and fear that our shallow materialism thrives on.

Hatred is a mental dysfunction and should be medically recognized. It would go next to Borderline Personality Disorder as "Non-Borderling Personality Disorder". We are having success with PTSD, and if we and the medical community are brave enough, we can take on the debilitation of hatred, which is really the bane of humanity.

Actually, we must.

(Anger is okay without hatred. Our strength is in thought and communication. Anger can think and explain itself.)

Hatred is uncontemplated. It is the antithesis of humanity. We're not going anywhere with it.

Good to read you on Medium. My views are stuck in an algorithmic silo.